Hey folks. And welcome back to our series on EC's methodology. Last time, we talked about the importance of designing something so you get a better understanding of what you need to build. Today we're going to talk about domains. So really don't do anything else yet. Start by getting a domain it's important. It's how different parts of your system are going to communicate with each other, even if it's a mobile app without a web presence.
In our experience, almost anything you can build is going to require a domain of some sort. Unless you're building a super self-contained mobile or desktop experience, you're going to need an authentication system, a place to store user data, et cetera. All of those things, we'll need to connect through a domain. One way or another, it's practical to have a domain.
If for no other reason, than you're going to want to put up some sort of marketing site or some web presence where people can learn about your product. It's also valuable to set up an email address where your users can get in touch with you. It doesn't look super professional. If you're doing that through a Gmail account. We recommend using CloudFlare if the top level domain you want is
supported by them, like.com or .org, there are some more recent top level domains that they don't support, but they support quite a few. If you do buy elsewhere, we still recommend using CloudFlare to manage your DNS. Their free plan provides a bunch of performance and security features that we find valuable on all our projects. If you do need to buy elsewhere, we've been really happy with Namecheap. If you're building on AWS, then it makes a lot of sense to go with Route 53.
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